210 Court Square—Built about 1925 and housed H. B. Dudley Hardware. One can still see the Dudley name in the tile by the front door. Later it was the Busy Department Store. The outside stairs from the alley went up to a lawyer’s office.

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Court Square

Rather than being formed by intersecting streets, DeWitt’s court square was designed as a continuous street around a public square with one access street in the middle of each block. The northwest, northeast, and southwest corners have unique lots containing buildings with chamfered corner entrances. The town was platted in such a way that people wouldn’t just pass through the downtown and keep going—the courthouse and square would be your final des- tination. This is an extremely rare layout for a court square—I’ve never seen another town like it.